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METRO VANCOUVER -- He was lucky 16 months ago when he survived a targeted hit outside a Mr. Lube automotive centre in Coquitlam.

But Jaskaran Singh Sandhu’s luck ran out this week when he was found slain on a rural south Surrey road — the victim of another targeted attack.

Sandhu, 26, had loose gang affiliations all over the Lower Mainland, but was not considered to be aligned with one specific criminal organization.

Cpl. Adam MacIntosh of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said police are looking at all possible motives, including whether Sandhu’s murder is linked to recent gang slayings in Surrey.

“We haven’t made any direct links to any other investigations at this time. We are looking at, obviously, that potential. We are looking at his history with police and his associates,” MacIntosh said. “But right now it is too early for us to know for certain what exactly [was] the motive for him getting killed.”

Sandhu’s body was found at the side of the 12300-block Colebrook Road about 9:20 a.m. Monday. Surrey RCMP called in IHIT because of indications that the dead man had met with foul play.

After IHIT made the identification, they had to notify Sandhu’s family.

A police tactical team spent Tuesday poring over the area where Sandhu was found.

Investigators don’t know if he was killed on Colebrook Road or simply dumped there.

MacIntosh said Sandhu, who most recently was living in Coquitlam, was known to police throughout the Lower Mainland.

“He has a lot of associations to a lot of different investigations and we are trying to determine whether or not his behaviour, and what he was involved in, ended up having to do with why he got killed,” MacIntosh said.

Sandhu was charged in Delta in May 2010 with two firearms counts. But the charges were later stayed. He had other criminal convictions as well.

He was also expected to be a witness against Sukhdeep Singh Poony, a Surrey man charged last March with attempted murder and several other counts in connection with the Mr. Lube shooting on Sept. 28, 2011.

Poony’s case is in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court Feb. 6 to fix a hearing date. A preliminary inquiry had been scheduled for this month, but was adjourned after Poony switched lawyers, Crown spokesman Neil MacKenzie said Tuesday.

MacKenzie said he couldn’t really comment on whether Sandhu’s murder will have any impact on the Crown’s case against Poony, who remains in pre-trial custody.

“I can’t say at this point what impact the death of Mr. Sandhu will have on the outstanding case,” MacKenzie said.

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